Suasive speech: A stronger affective defense of rhetoric and the politics of cognitive poetics
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Suasive speech : A stronger affective defense of rhetoric and the politics of cognitive poetics. / Gruber, David R.
In: Language & Communication, Vol. 49, 2016, p. 36-44.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Suasive speech
T2 - A stronger affective defense of rhetoric and the politics of cognitive poetics
AU - Gruber, David R
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - A review of empirical data on involuntary affective responses to ‘rhetorical’ speech establishes the need to reexamine Jean-Jacques Rousseau's so-called ‘Weak Defense of Rhetoric,’ which considers rhetorical tropes to be dangerous because they seduce the body. Evaluating empirical findings also challenges Richard Lanham's ‘Strong Defense,’ which dismisses Rousseau and rejects any condemnation of ‘rhetorical speech’ in asserting that all utterances are already rhetorical insofar as they are contextual and selective. Ultimately, experimental psychology and neuroscience studies give good reason to adopt a new, Stronger Affective Defense of Rhetoric, one that prioritises the body and its degrees of affectability, embracing Rousseau's idea that democratic deliberation must be concerned with how the body is intimately and often automatically moved by rhetorical speech.
AB - A review of empirical data on involuntary affective responses to ‘rhetorical’ speech establishes the need to reexamine Jean-Jacques Rousseau's so-called ‘Weak Defense of Rhetoric,’ which considers rhetorical tropes to be dangerous because they seduce the body. Evaluating empirical findings also challenges Richard Lanham's ‘Strong Defense,’ which dismisses Rousseau and rejects any condemnation of ‘rhetorical speech’ in asserting that all utterances are already rhetorical insofar as they are contextual and selective. Ultimately, experimental psychology and neuroscience studies give good reason to adopt a new, Stronger Affective Defense of Rhetoric, one that prioritises the body and its degrees of affectability, embracing Rousseau's idea that democratic deliberation must be concerned with how the body is intimately and often automatically moved by rhetorical speech.
U2 - 10.1016/j.langcom.2016.05.001
DO - 10.1016/j.langcom.2016.05.001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 36
EP - 44
JO - Language and Communication
JF - Language and Communication
SN - 0271-5309
ER -
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